Scott Joplin Quotes

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares.

Never play ragtime fast at any time.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical culture.

Good times coming. Good times have come.

That’s who I am. I don’t look much like him now with my foot wrapped up and all that kind of business.

Boy, when I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians.